Week 3

This week has flown by.  You feel everyone's love for you from in and outside the MTC.  This week we have talked a lot about how we need the Holy Ghost with us no matter what!  It will help us with questions we have and guide us to people that we need to meet.  In our devotional on Tuesday we had the opportunity to hear from James B. Martino from the seventy.  He talked a lot on our attitudes and how we need to have a good one and be like Nephi, but if we have a bad one we will end up like Laman and Lemual.  He started of by asking who a person was that left there house and traveled in the wilderness, then went back to get something that they needed, built a boat, traveled a crossed the ocean, and saw an angle.  We all responded Nephi but he said Laman and Lemual.  I had never thought of it that way.  Laman and Lemual had the same experience that Nephi had but the difference was there attitude.  If we murmur and complain then we wont feel the spirit and we wont let our testimony grow, so we need to humble our self's and have a good attitude about everything that we possibly can.  


I love my experiences here and can't wait for more to come to come in the last 3 weeks I have here.  

Love you and miss you all!

Äldste Paxton 

1. Springville boys
2. Found my future parking spot
3. My 5 mile run on Saturday 
4. The sun rises while eating my breakfast 









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